gauss ex; bittligtoor. WEDNESDAY, MAY 22, 1867 Wanted. Three aopies of the WEEKLY Dam- LIGENCER, of May Bth, 1887. Any three of our subscribers will confer a favor by baeh sending a copy to this Office. Temperance In Politica. Temperance is a great virtue, and just now there is need of temperance in politics. Fanaticism has run riot in this country for a numbefof years past, and men generally credited with good sense have been known to make very billy fools of themselves. Intemperance in politics has been the rule ever since the war began. In Pennsylvania it has been as much so as anywhere else in the country. Unexcitable as our pop ulation usually is, the people have showed themselves to be about as mud as they were In any part of .New Eng land. But now we are about to have an era of teraperance in our politics. The dominant party are. beginning to fear that they cannot continue to win on past issues, and they are.,taking an en tirely new departure., They are putting themselves forward as the temperance party. A day or two since the Harrisburg Telegraph, the central organ of the Radicalsof Pennsylvania, devoted about a column of its editorial space to a de scription of the initiation of his Excel lency Governor Geary into a lodge of the Good Templars, a secret temperance organization. The ceremonials of the order were made especially Imposing for the occasion, and the whole world was congratulated upon the auspicious event. If there is any simple soul i n the State so soft as not to suppose that there was a design In all that, we pity the credulous creature. Brigadier Gen eral Governor Geary in a politician of very small calibre, but of vast cotirelt, and most pretentious ambition. Ile is a moral and political humbug of the very first water. II is abilities are just sufficient to adapt him to the task of playing the part of a political temper ance reformer in the midst, of a rising excitement on that question. In many ways, short, aS haB been the time since he was inaugurated, he has evidenced an inordinate ambition to be re elected, th In Hhe sees an element of ntrength In the temperance agitation DOW going on, and stralg,htway he turns his hack upon the Uermans whom he addressed with lager glans in hand at Erie, and taken a solemn pledge In a secret }1 ovivly to srnicili every beer mug In l'enns, vania. Ile has just the proper proper. tionn of knave and fool in his yomposi don to make him the leader In a Maine liquor law crusade. Thal we are destined to have a genets- ul political agitation ell the temperat question In this Stale there is no don The Radical politicians are deep in vices of that character already. Harrisburg 'P/c,groph, most loyal a unquestionahle authority, had the lowing in its editorial columns a day two sinee : The ;4ode tissemided lately at Harrisburg, made I , vision tor drafting a bill 11111111 g 111 1110 1111111.1011 111 11111 liquor train, in Pettic,y I 11111. Al 1 110 111110 a 11111 10..11111 111 I 110 1' Vlllll 11/11, it 111(11 111/11111.11.11 1 11 , 1 040 k. 11411 fiir ie t rislat 111) 111111111, 11111 It WIIN 1111/)1,11011 111 1111. Clilillolllll/11 111111 11 111/111111111110111191111 1/11 1 9 111/1111011, 11'111011, 111 11111 1111111111 11110, 911011111 1/111/11111, 11 1/111, 111 110 1)110.111111d 111 11111 lAN! 1.11111110, 1110 lin 'Vl9lllll'l a 11111011 111.11 1) llu 11111 11 11 With II 1, low to prolilbiler4 ob• .incts. 111411..11,11n cessin, a the chairman tlils committee, and, (1,. understand, is .:ngaged 11 preparing Inn. hill. Ile Is itit able lawyer, and bun had an extensive pre,- Lice as IL legislator. No oilier 1111111 in the :3tate could do this subject greater . 11141 lII'. II would hoodieious Ir 111 r. Cenvuu outdo his hill public as soon as it is drain, that the people 111111' have 1111 014.11111111 y to eon sider its provisions before they etect torn to give it legal tom , 111111 11110111. We agree with tile timid, that 1111 little mountebank John Cessna, 11101111 be the very fellow to draft a :Main, liquor law for Pennsylvania. Ile Iveul, prepare an act which would hold wale and nothing else. We judge from 1111 article we copy from the nlegmph Ilia he 111111 1110 t yet given up all hope of lie ing nominated for Governor, a n d wont, infer that he expects, after having bee] rejected by both ex 'siting political el gal:ll7.l),Hour , , to come in at last as Ili Radical Temperance candidate. Let 111 hero of Snicitersville look 111 Ills trap Cessna is a sharp trickster, and inigt easily outwit the present stupid occt pant of the gubernatorial chair. But, to cease jesting, we are really sorry to see the temperance cause lii this State being thus shipwrecked upon the shoals of political strife. TllOlll is need of reform. No one will question that for a. single moment. But Ilie deserved reform can never clllllO through the alliance of the friends of temperance with ally political organ', zatlon. Au attempt of that kind insure to drag it into an arena from which it can only comp forth defiled and shorn of moral strength. in tills country, as elsewhere, all sumptuary laws have been exceeding ly unpopular, and in no instance have prohibitory liquor /awe been productive f good results. Wherever they have been tried they have been found to be not only powerless for good, but pro ductive of positive evil. The Maine liquor law did not prevent General Banks from getting so drunk at Port land last year that he came near losing the nomination for Congress in conse quence of his exposure of himself in a disgracefully drunken condition. Those who are best Informed upon the subject, say there Iris 1)0011 More liquor consumed In Maine since the passage of the law than there WIAS 1)0- fore. Still, tile advocates of the mea sure are not willing to abandon the wrong principle upon which they have starters. They are still legislating on the question. Last winter the Legis lature of Maine created tile office of State Constable, and conferred on this Chief of Pollee the power to ap point his subordinates throughout the State. As the law 110 W RUM& in Maine it is a criminal (Atone, to sell even a glass of elder, and punish able with fine and imprisonmem. Any three persons, competent to be witness es in civil suits, may make complaint that they believe intoxicating liquor, to be deposited in any house for sale and the magistrate Is bound . to Issue a warrant commanding a search of the premises , If any liquors are found awl° be confiscated, and the par them in possession is to he forttWith brought up for trial. One would, suppose such a law as that would prove to he entirely prohibitory. Vol it is not. All the evidence is to the con , trary, and, as we before said, the con , sumption of liquor , and the crime o drunkeness continue to be undhnin ished. The truth is the temperance question is one that should be kept entirely out of politics. Prohibitory liquor laws are useless as well as obnoxious. The crime of drunkenness cau never be controlled in any such way. If the friends of the temperance movement in Pennslyva nla are wise, they will stand aloof from Politics, and depend upon appeals to the moral sentiment of the community. Guards Dispensed With The President of the United States on Wednesday took a walk in the streets of Washington, unaccompanied by a guard. Early in Mr. Lincoln's admin istration guards were placed around the President whenever he ventured out into the street, tand that custom has path:mod µail now, Exciting a war•of Races. Negro riots are now of nightly occur rence in the South. Wherever such miserable agitators as Wilson and Kelly have harangued exciteable crowds of ignorant hlockejturOlts have : been ex.? cited and blnkl bee been shed. In Richmond, Charleston; New Orleans, and Mobile, these despicable Northern adventurers hezie proclahned their re-, volutionary notions to gaping crowds of ignorant negroes, and invariably a riot has followed. It is noticeable that the Radical press of the North has not dared to charge these disturbances upon the whites. The origin of them has always been with the negroes, and it is admit ted on all hands that Wilson, Kelley Sr, I Co., are to blame. These riots have always been com menced just after the distempered ha rangues of the " torch and turpentine orators." The negroes, fired by being told that there ought to be no ,distinc tions in schools, in churches, in places of amusement, in jury boxeii, at the ballot box, in public conveyitnces, in the right to hold office ; but perfect equality everywhere and in all things, have undertaken to redresstifeir fancied grievances by force. The result has been deplorable. Already several lives have been lost. But the troublols as yet only In its beginning. The seeds of evil planted by the fanatical speakers now on a stumping tour through the South will yet culminate lu a war of races, lull of the most ghastly horrors unless there Is an end of the kind o s ieeelies now being made. Ile negro race Is peculiarly Intlull hie. They are steeped In Ignorance ye no idea or law, and no conceptioi the constitution of civilized society Thuey are ready to lielleve that they have right ,, to Helze upon the property of the w bitem, and are eager to embrace the pernicious and revolutionary doctrines advanced by the unprincipled white scoundrels who are now busily engaged in stirring up bud blood between them and their former musters. One white man, who would go among the negroes of the South, as Kelley did among those at Mobile, boasting that he had the power of the United Slates urwy at his back, could start a revolution by the utterance of a dozen words. I , :very needy and rapacious negro would he ready at a moment's warning to enlist in a crusade against the property and the lives of the whites. The riots which have occurred prove that nothing but extreme caution can prevent the outbreak of a war between the two raves In the South, which will rival hi 11(.0118 of horr6r the massacre of Sun Domingo, /sae the people of the North ready to enrourage men like Wilson, Kelley and other Radical leaders in their bloody work ? Are they prepared to endorse a course of action which must lead to the most deplorable consequences? If are not they inumt speak out ho y, and in tones that will be heard and ed. I.:very nem in the North I 4 yintere led in preserving good Ler In the South, and in protecting the Odle men of that section In all their The Hecht!, political, and nut eriul iiih.roiln of the whole nation are ',elm; imperilled ity the leaders of the Radical party. Those bold, bad 111011 WOlllll t. 1.1! leHlructlou coma 11p011 the NVIII/1r country rather than yield their 1101,1 upon power Ity witleli they profit so marl) at the expense or a tax•rldden MaNsarliasetts Morality. 'mother column will lie found a de tailed nevotint or the horrible and dis gusting conduct, ()I' a specimen New England fanatie. " Extremes mule is an old proverb, and one which Is veld- fled in this appalling ease of immorality lit is,lassitchusetts. Amidst the most puritanical community in the world, where they force morality down peo ple's throats, where to look awry is al most a crime, where people melt away in sorrow for the poor negro, where to touch whiskey or wine Is regarded im moral, and where all the theories for the Improvement, of other people are agita ted there we lied a man, educated and highly honored, who united In himself the charaeters of a preacher of the gos pel, n legislator or the State, and Chair man or the School Committee of the town, guilty of crimes that are not fit ohe mentioned. We know of nothing 0 be compared to the disgusting wick •doess of this reverend and honorable 11.. Howe, in modern times and in a' •ivlli•red country. The fact is, the pre ended morality or humanity of Massa diusetts is nothing but profund hypo t.isy. There Is not, probably, so wick al a city in the world as Boston. With a great. outside show of decency and morality, there isavast amount of secret vice./ I t is much the same throughout the State. Su c h crimes as we refer to could not occur in any other state of so ciety. From such great pretences, with so much hypocrisy, the worst crimes hat u rally spring. The High Price of Provisions The high prices of provisions and •cad cause much anxiety in relation to prospect of the cowing crops. The Torts generally from various portions r the country are favorable as to wheat, nd the Trutt crop promises well. .But ol•I1 is " the stair of life" for this mutt- Mr upon Its abundance we depend u• meat, poultry, &e. The crop of corn lust greatly exceed that of last year if rovlsions are to be lower In prlee; and last year the porn crop was estimated over a thousand millions of bushels. Double that amount would not more than be litilllclont for our consumption 110111 V, t.O Hay nothing of a surpluB xpornalon. 'fl \\' HL van no longer mend who or flour to the Eastern cities. They have hardly enough for their own use. The consequence of high prices of food is an advance in the emit of mechanical and agricultural labor, and strikes every where for higher wages. That no great reduction In the price of wheat Is es peeted is shown by the fact that grow tur crops, to he harvested in June, have been contracted for by millers in the _Middle States, at the price of three dol lars per bushel. The want or articles for export has caused a renewal of shipments of gold, lid the five-twenties are also remitted In largo amounts to pay for imported goods. A financial disturbance in the customs may he expected unless our corning crops should be very large. In- Mud ry of every kind must be slacken ed, production diminished, and the re venue from internal taxation be reduced more than one-half for the fiscal year commencing on the Ist of July next, unless the price of bread and provisions be brought down to a reasonable scale. Democratic, Victories At the municipal election in W liamsport, Lycoming county, on the 15th, Dr. W. F. Logan, the Democratic candidate for Mayor, was elected by 87 majority — a gain of 191 votes. Last spring the Radical candidate had 104 majority. This is amostsignal triumph, and entitles the Democracy of that little city to unbounded praise. On the same day the Democracy of ilkesbarre, Luzerne county, elected Hon. J. B. Stark to the Mayoralty over Col. E. B. Harvey, the present Mayor, by 68 majority--again of 468. Last year Harvey's majority was 40(i. This is eel.- thinly a surprising and gratifying re sult, and from it and similar victories elsewhere in the State, we feel confi dent that Radicalism will fall irrecover ably at the next general election. Gerrit- f3mlth andAtorace Greeley. These two notorious men are now coupled together in most abusive ar-, tides, and, strange to say, in 'Radical newspapers. They were both presetit In Richmond at the liearing and midis(' of Jefferson Davis - , and both made speeches in 'that city to a mixed asr 14emblage of blacks and whites. To their honor be it said, their addressees were vastly different from the inflam matory harangues of the politicalanoun tebanks Wilson and Kelley. Gerrit Smith_ did not hesitate to admit that the North was partly to blame for the rebellion. He said boldly that the North had been equally guilty with the South in establishing and maintaining the existence of slavery, and added : "We of the North reaped far more gain from it than you did —you but held . the cow—we milked it." He took the position that when the strife had advanced to a great civil war, with a de facto government carrying on war as an independent power, the peo ple of the States in revolt were no longer traitors. He declared that he was "averse to having his countrymen (the South erners) go down to posterity branded as traitors." Be wanted to lift them up from their supposed degradation, be cause he regarded " the North as under a common responsibility with the South for the late war." He denounced the proposition of Thud. Stevens for con flscating the property of the Southern people, and said Congress ought to re lieve the South from direct Federal taxes for some years, In order that they might re-establish industry and recover that prosperity upon which depended so much of the future material power of the nation. What a contrast there is between the utterance and the acts of Gerrit Smith and Horace Greeley, and those of the plundering horde of political adventu rers represented by Wilson and Kelley. These men, Smith and ( ireeley, fought slavery from :t humanitarian stand point. They regarded it us "the sum of human villainies," and were moved by pure, but, we believe, mistaken motives In their warfare against the system as established in the South. They advocated a vigorous prosecution of the war, and were the extremest of Radicals. Butt when the war ended, when the people of the South laid down their arms and abolished slavery forever, the most distinguished among the ori ginal abolitionists" were ready to ac cord liberal terms to a vanquished and Impoverished people. It is the mean-spirited and mercenary tradersc - The rascally political trieksters, the thieved who hung around the public treasury, the low fellows who make merchandise of Mike, the creeping creatures who seek to enrich themselves by the spoils, the unclean birds which fatten on oitul, the cunning tricksters who want to perpetuate themselves in places of profit, who have howled for vengeance on a prostrate and defence less people. It had so happened that during the war the worst class of Northern TIWII Illallaged to secure con trol of the dominant political party. They were loud In their professions of hatred against slavery, and still louder In their protestations or extreme and exclusive loyalty, /,,coose it paid INA. They measured political principles by the pocket standard, Whatever put money Into t . hei• originally lean purses, was to them the highest 11111111/.11 good the sum and substative or political truth. They had tasted the sweets or office, and were resolved not to be driven away from the public crib at which they were fattening. To maintain their hold upon power they were ready to risk the best interests of the nation. I: now lug no higher law than that or the most grasping and avaricious selfishness they cured no thing for others, nothihg for the public good, nothing for the country. It is a notorious fact that the Radical members of Congress, and Radical members of State Legislatures,have disgraced them selves and the whole country by the most corrupt and profligate conduct. They have Laken bribes openly and unblushingly, and have squander ed the money wrung from the toll of a tax burthened people with the most lavish and wasteful profusion, impov erishing the musses to enrich them selves. It is from these wretched political plunderers that the incessant clamor for vengeance upon the South ern people has constantly come. They were "Tau last to hitch the cruel warfare cease, The tlrst Lo make a malady of peace." What a coo trust is presented by the very men who were the leaders of the abolition party, before It became a baud of thieves, a mere conglomerated body of public robbers! Negro Equality Judge Kellogg, Collector of the port of Now Orleans, has promoted a colored clerk and appointed two colored Inspectors of Customs. Mayor Heath hue determined now to throw open the nubile shoots to whites and blacks alike. When old Thad. gets Ids bill to "guar antee a Republican government to Pennsylvania'' passed by Congress, we shall have the public schools of this state " thrown open to whites and blacks alike." Then, perhaps, we shall find out whether any portion of the Re publican party Is really opposed to negro equality. Many of them, whilst hold ing that the negro ought to be allowed to vote, profess to be opposed to putting him In the jury box with white mein or to seating his offspring beside white children In OW public HlllOOll4. Their sincerity Is 111'SL/1101i In be put to the test In the ronr , ,, , or a year or LWO. Their ettderm will uuL allow them Li),..icupt , l'hese I nmint that an the negro used th ' bullet'' (luring the war, the right, inns now be conceded to him to use' the bal lot. This point gained, they Will insist that having beau admitted to the ballot box, he must by virtue thereof be ad mitted to the Jury box. This second point gained, they will insist that as the negro has the right to sit beside white men In the jury box, his children must have the right to sit beside white chil dren lu the school room. This third point gained, they will Insist that as white and black children sit beside one another in school, they should Inter marry when they grow up. This is the complexion Radicalism will come to at no very distant day. Republicans who profess to be unwilling to go so far had better pause in time. The Impeachment Fizzle If the truth were known, we think it would be found that Ashley, Butler, Forney, and the rest of the'hnpeachers, would give a round sum (provided they could steal it out of the public treasury) to get clear of the whole impeachment business. As a fizzle, it bids fair to surpass Forney's tilt at Senatorial honors or Butler's squint at Fort Fisher. Leading Radical journals all over the country are kicking it down hill, with out seeming to care greatly whether the actors in it come out with broken bones or not. The Pittsburg Commercial of yesterday says: It is understood that the Impeachment Committee make but slow headway, and that since the exploding, one after another, of the charges brought by General Butler, the.zeal of at least some of the original movers in the business has considerably slackened. The Committee, very properly, we think, have turned their attention to other matters. Nothing is more certain than that poor as is the estimation in which Johnson is held, there is no public senti 4 ment worthy of regard, demanding the continuation of the impeachment business. Thus far, some of the movers in it have had More to regret than Mr. Johnson. • ;Ttidlang~Tiout" Radical newspapers are cunningly en. , deayoring to prepare the masses for : an unfavorable exhibitof our financial ctin-7. ditiOn. They nelboger styleßar huge' national debt a fiathinakideasidg. That kind of talk is played out. Tfie masses have had amost realizing settle or,the evils whichmustinYariably accompany the creation of a huge national debt.— Ground down by the burthens imposed upon them, taxed in a thousand ways, having a few cents filched from their hard earnings on every trifling purchase, and being compelled to forego the lux uries, the pleasures, and even many of the • necessaries of life which they were used to under old-fdshioned, honest Democratic rule, they are beginning to wake up. The Harrisburg Telegraph has the following item in its editorial columns : • The Indian war will be attended with a very heavy expense. It is unlucky that we have the Indians to fight so soon after the war against the rebellion, but this is prob ably, a logical supplement of the treason of the South. We do not see how, in the pre sent financial situation, we can avoid ad ding materially to the public debt. That is a very modest way of an nouncing -the fact that the extrava gance of the Radicals in Congress is sure to leave us with the national debt largely increased at the end of the year. To lay it upon the Indian war may fool some very stupid people, but the masses cannot be deceived by any such stuff'. They know that many millions have been recklessly voted away for the sup port of agents of the Freedmen's Bu reau and other useless officials and hang ers-on of the Radical party. There are two kinds of Indians in this country.— The one Is the genuine painted savage, dangerous in war on account of his treacherous disposition and cruel na ture, the regular red devil, whose chief delight is to "clutch fingers iu a cap tive's hair." They are troublesome, thieving fellows, with a constant hank ering after horse flesh, and our wars with them have been expensive. But there is another class of Indians who have put the country to vastly greater expense than ever the aborigines did. They are the political Indians who be- long to the Radical party, and pattern after the Winnebago Chief, who repre sents the Republicans of Pennsylvania In the United States Senate. These white-skinned political Indians are greater thieves than the red men of the forest, and have stolen in the past six years one thousand times as much money as all our 'lndian wars ever cost us. The people have determined to have their scalps. A Deserved Compliment. A late number of the Easton Arqux contains the following paragraph : "A gentleman who had some busi ness at Harrisburg during the last nekl stun, told us some time ago, that he happened to overhear a conversation between several professional borers, who were discussing the chances of a certain bill passing the Senate naming a number of Senators who been secured, one of Lhe borers said ' there Is oue mau lu the Senate whose vote can't he got unless you can satisfy him that tlu; bill 18 right—he can't he reached In any other way—that man is Mr. "Wallace!' A higher compliment could not well be paid to an Incorrupti ble public servant." The truth of the above no one who knows Senator Wallace will l'or a mo ment doubt. He is beyond a question of thu purest men that aver Mt the Senate of Pennsylvania. 111 s un spotted integrity, added to his very decided ability, has enabled hint to hold the position of loader of that body. liven his political opponents look up to him as a man superior to themselves in virtue, and fully the equal In intellect of any one in their ranks. No man in public life in this State is more honored and respected to-day than Senator Wal lace. The future has its rewards in store for him. The Mobile Riot Some of the Radical newspapers have been charging the Agent of the Associ ated Press with the transmission of an unfair account of the riotwhich occurred at Mobile, while Kelly was indulging In his brutal and Incendiary harangue. They desire to throw all the blame upon the white men and to relieve the ne groes and Kelly from blame. The Phil adelphia Inquirer, radical as It is, takes another view of the matter. It has a correspondent traveling with Kelly, who denies that the disorder was the result of any concert of action on the part of the whites. The whole disturbance arose out of Kelley's own conduct, and he is chiefly responsible for the loss of life which occurred. It must be born iu mind that the special despatch in the inquirer comes direct from one of Kelley's own partisans. It will bear no other con struction than the one we put upon it. A large general meeting composed of prominent citizens of Mobile, which was also participated in by many of the most respectable Degrees has been held, and the following preamble and resolu tions unanimously adopted : WHEREAS, At a meetingheld in this city, on the night of May 14th, there were dis turbances and disorders resulting in most lamentable consequences; and whereas this meeting Is composed of the citizens of Mobile who desire to announce to the peo ple of the country their unqualified disap probation of all such ;Leis, therefore, Itrvolvedalre, That we deeply deplore the unfortunate occurrences that took place at said meeting, end desire to express, in the strongest terms, our disapprobation of them. Second, Wo aro of tho opinion that tho cllntoilattoco at said mooting WIN wholly unprotontlittand and 11w remultor nettltlitnittl t. , •iwnwitt to %vlll,lt :immetilhhtgom uric li i hir,f t In our .I,illloll, nut' pooplu tau no dlaposcal to Imp& In !my inannur thorn! oxerclao of speech to ull and @very clams )OT HOnFi• Black and Tan Convention In Baltimore On Tuesday last a mixed assemblage of negroes and white men gathered in the city of Baltimore. They dignified the concern with the high sounding title of " The Radleal State Convention of Maryland." We suppose they were fully entitled to the appellation. Out side of the Northern States the Radical or Republican party cannot muster many adherents who have not negro blood In their veins. The Baltimore concern was radical enough In all conscience. A series of resolutions were passed endors ing negro suffrage and negro equal ity in the broadest and most un equivocal terms. Among other things which they propose to do is to take the vote of all the negroes of the State, and of such white men as can be induced to vote with them, in favor of annuling the Constitution as it now exists, or as it may be amended by the Convention now in session at Annapolis, and the adoption of a Constitution conferring the right to vote and hold office upon the negroes. They expect Congress to endorse their action and to force those odious conditions upon the white popu lation of the State. The Radicals, head ed by John A. J. Cresswell, are in a pitiful minority in Maryland, andhave no hope of regaining power, except by means of some such revolutionary pro ceeding. Booth's Diary. W e publish a copy of the diary found upon the body of J. Wilkes Booth, as officially certified by Judge Holt. A ram in Charleston, who two years ago vowed'. that he *mild not cut his hair or beard 'Until ,Teffbradh bavis Should be re lamed, has Just called upon a barbek. !fairyland. in the Maryland Constitutional Con vention on Friday last, the committee ,on the Bill of Rights made its report.' .While the great fundamentals perete... ! "Niaembodied in the instrUminit - , were• leo well determined as to afford, little need of change, there are yet some few 'modifications to its declarations .which are' highly important and eminently proper. Such is the clause added to the article on civil and religious liberty, viz : "Nor shall any person be deemed incompetent as a witness on account of race or color." So also is the following new article: Art. 44. That the provisions of the con stitution of the United States and of this State, apply as well in time of war as in time of peace, and any , departure there from, or violation thereof, under the plea of necessity, or any other plea, is subversive of good government, and tends to anarchy and despotism. An article similar to this ought to be put in the Constitution of the United States, and there should he affixed to its violation a penalty of the highestorder. The Word "White" In the Constitution. The Radical bunglers in the Legisla ture of Ohio did not accomplish the ob ject of their wishes in striking the word " white" out of the Constitution. They provided that it should be amended in the voting section, so that the offensive word " white" would not turn up there, but at the same time they left the fol lowing section, which is, in article 9, unchanged: "All white male citizens, residents of this State, being eighteen years of age, and un der forty-ilve years, shall be enrolled in the militia and perform military duty, in such manner, not Incompatible with the Consti tution and laws of the 'United States, as may be proscribed by law." The result is that even if the amend ment carries, we shall still have the ob noxious phrase " white" employed in au important provision to wound the sensibilities and offend the taste of all radlcaldom, A PIIOTOORAI'II of Jeff. Davis, as he came out of Fortress Monroe, to frame along side of a picture of one of the starved Union prisoners as they were released from Belle Isle and Anderkuville, is destined to be come a popular work or art with Copper heads.—Harrisburg Telegraph. A photograph of the publisher of the Telegraph, displaying fairly the two hundred and fifty pounds of Govern ment fat that hides his bones, would be " a popular work of art" in a butcher shop, Pharisees Howling' 'The release of Mr. Davis affords to some of our colornporarles 0 pretext for malig nant vituperation. The edltorofthis journal Is howled at with a vindictiveness which is comforting so far as It shows that the tongues 01 curtain of our friends have not yet cleaved to the roofs of their mouths. but that pass as the Idle wind which we heed not. One or two observations, how ever, may be ventured in reference to a mutter which seems to excite more than ordinary Interest. Jefferson Davis was taken prisoner tWo years since. Ito was arrested as an atifills sin—and for his arrest the Government paid the sum or one hundred thousand dollars. The President claimed to know In offering this reward that Mr. Davis was the Rum- Mice of Wilkes Booth. Ho was thrown in to a dungeon, and manacled, and held in harrasming durance. As all assassin, espe chilly as the assassin of ;An Lincoln, this rigor and vigilance did not seem unnecess ary, and we were content. With all the 'roofs the Administration claimed to lave, was IL not wise, nay was it not duo to the memory of the martyred dead, that speedy Justice should he visited upon the great offender. Cer tainly, If Jefferson Davis was concerned In the assassination of Mr. Lincoln, he was the chief assassin. The wretch who was shot, the four wretches who \VOA, sit swiftly hanged ono midsummer's day, were the more instruments itl tin hands of the grout criminal. This belief induced Mr. Davis' arrest., Mai ill() lalylllollt of an enormous re ward. What canto of the arrest ? With evidence of his guilt in the possession of Mr. Stanton—with a hundred generals only too happy to ho assigned to court-martial duty—with the courts open, able lawyers and district-attorneys duly commissioned, the great criminal was permitted to remain. in prison, and not a word was said of Jus-'. tico. For two years this has continued, and now, at the end of two years, the Gov ernment permits him, an unpunished assas sin, to be taken from prison and released on Lail. If this is right now, when did it be cone right? If, after all, the Government has no evidence showing the complicity of Davis and Booth, why was not the charge withdrawn? Weil, It was as a traitor, and not an as sassin, that Mr. Davis was held, and as such he should have been kept in Jail. But why keep hint in jail? Treason is a crime, and a crime, according to Mr. Johnson, that should be punished. There is a lawful way of punishing neon in this country. To keep a man in prison without a trial is a viola tion of law, not obedience to it. Mr. Davis nay have committed many crimes—so nany Indeed that, according to ono howl ng Pharisee, "It is a disgrace and reproach 'to our country that ho should ever he per ' milted to desecrate with his traitor loot- " prints the soil of a free State." But how do we• know that ho committed crimes? There is but one "way of knowing It— the verdict, of twelve trusty mon. Bo cause Mr. Davis is a criminal, must we also be criminal ? Because ho is known to have committed, must we also commit what is certainly moral trea son to the Constitution? If It is right to take Jefferson Davis, citizen, and imprison him two years without judge or jury, why not citizen Thurlow Weed, or citizen Wil liam Cullen Bryant? But It is popularly believed that Mr. Davis is a traitor, and that, as ft traitor, he should long ago have been hanged. Well, it is also popularly believed that if Mehurlow Weed had his deserts he woul long ago have been in Sing Sing. We "e no legal knowledge of Cie fact. Mr. Weed has never been ar rested nor tried ; nor has even an indict ment been found. He is at liberty, and so long as ho is not legally accused we shall insist that he remain at liberty, and if necessary we shall find twenty bondsmen who will answer for his security until tried. The principle is the same, whether it ap plies to Davis or Weed, or citizen Dermot arrested for assault and battery. The law has no prejudices—the Constitution no " popular ' punishments. Certain citizens testify their appreciation of the principle so conspicuously violated In the case of Mr. Davis by becoming his bondsmen, ['Aston to the Pharisees howl ing. It Is popular to howl at Mr. Davis, and hence till this loudly-echoing indigna tion. What is justice? What Is law? What is the Constitution? What are the honor, and dignity of this nation? Mr. Davis is a traitor and should be hanged I Well, Johnson Is a patriot, and why did he not hang him? The Pharisees who howl over Davis huzza fur Johnson. So long as Davis Was II fall, we oppose,' him. The Rebellion he lud, the slave system he cherished, the disunion he preached, we have warred upon. We war upon them now, and shall continue to do so tint ii this land is a land of universal freedom and impartial suffrage. But Jefferson Davis is no longer a fact. lie no longer represents armed treason. "LOH our victim, our pri soner; the creature of the laws, and one in whose person the laws have for two years been dishonored. Against that Injustice we have protested, as we hope to protest injustice in any form, no matter how lofty or lowly the victim. This we do because we believe it to be right. The Pharisees may howl notwithstanding. We have heard them many and many a time before.— Y. Tribune,. Judue Kelley at 1110h110..A VlolentSpeech —lliot In Consequence. May 14.—A large number of negroes mot tonight corner of Govermnent and Royal streets, to bear Judge Kelley, of Pennsylvania. A number of whites wore also present. Everything was remarkably quiet until Mr. Kelly began speaking. He commenced by saying he had come to discuss the right of the negroes, which they were entitled to, and he bid defiance to all interruptions and to the world. He had the 15th regiment at his back, and if they proved inadequate the whole United States army would not. Judge Kelley continued in this strain for some time, using language, expressions and incendiary sentences which were calculated to invite riotous demonstrations. He was here interrupted by a white man on the outskirts of the crowd, whom the police promptly arrested. The first shot was fired at this point, but it is impossible to say who fired it. Instan taneously shots followed froin the negroes, who were all well armed. The firing then became general. A large majority of the shots were fired by the negroes, as but very few of the whites present were armed, hav ing attended the meeting to listen quietly to Mr. Kelly, and without the remotest idea of causing a riot. The police succeeded in quelling the riot before the arrival of the companies of the 15th regiment, who were ordered out by Col. Sheppard, and appeared as soon as pos sible, but not until the meeting had been dispersed. Everything is quiet, and there is little or no excitement at midnight. It is impossible to say positively the num ber of killed and wounded. Three men were killed, one white man and two Ile groes. A number of persons were wound ed, alining, them one policeman and a white boy, Froat South America The New York Herald says Our South American letters are dated at Rio Janeiro on the 9th of April, and Buenos Ayres on the 28th of March. No new move mouthed_ been made by party, hrthe Paraguayan wee Pkket*liming atel.tbe, throwing of shells occasionally-Sint° thin -t Pait3r Were the only:: hostile 'mancettyres I going on. Minister Washburnearrived at the camp of theitllies'on the 4,th of March, from.theParaguayaiiievertunent, to which be is acerddited, andiiad a secret conference with Marquis Caries. It is believed the conversation was in reference to the pro posed mediation on the part of the United States, and that Marquis Caries declined to admit of any mediation whatever. The recruiting of the National Guard for service in the field is utterly opposed by the members of that organization in Rio Ja neiro. In Pernambuco an open revolt is threatened in the event of the order being enforced. The Paraguayan army is well supplied with everything through Bolivia. No sign of want is visible among them, while the allies are discontented, being bound up in a swamp and deserted by their allies. A Peace Conference was held at the Government House, in Buenos Ayres, at which General Mitre, the Provisional President of Uruguay, and the Brazilian Minister were present. It is believed all favored a speedy peace. The proffered me diation of the United States is in great favor with all classes, Lopez, the President of Paraguay, among them. Operations against the rebels in the Argentine Republic were actively prosecuted, and the force of the lat ter had been reduced to a few guerilla bands. A Thrllllnir As William Paget and others of Elmira were observing the river on Saturday af ternoon, they saw all at once two small boys, about ten or twelve years of age, standing on a small slab raft In the midst of the swift current, and fast approaching the dam. They rushed to the bank and hallooed to thorn to lie down and cling to the raft. The lads heard and heeded the injunction, just as their frail support bore theta Safely over the surging waters of the dam. But at the first alarm, Sol. Smith. a most daring and intrepid oarsman, leaped Into a row bout, and with simply a strip of board for an oar, steered the bout into the current, passed over the clam, and with an almost superhuman skill overtook the boys, and rescued thorn from what seemed inevi table at first, a watery grave. As soon as the boat touched the shore, the boys leaped out and run oil' 111) Main street before their names could be ascertained. Their gallant rescuer was congratulated for his humane, self-sacrificing act by all who witnessed it. dUCrt iSer The Crop Prompeet In the Mouth It Is represented that the prospect for miming crops this season on the bottom lands of the Mississippi Is quite discourag ing. The New Orleans Price Current says fences in very many instances hi.vu been swept away, mules, and other stock, scat tered or entirely lost, and, above all, the laborers who had been employed io culti- Vale the lands have, most of them, been compelled to rind new and distant heroes. In the lower portion of Louisiana, the de struction caused by the floods Is almost without precedent. Many planters, we fear, will be entirely ruined in their pecu niary affairs ' and it will take a long tillleto enable even the most favored among thorn to recuperate. The .planters on the loft bank of the river have so far not been dis turbed by crevasses, and we learn that, as a general thing, wherever the fields have not boon overflowed, the young cane looks OM premising as could ho expected eonsid tiring the remarkably cold and backward season which we have had up to this time. Execution of Fouler. Fogier, the murderer of Mr. Dinsmore, in December last, was hung at Washington, Pa., on Wednesday. lie made a statement confessing his own guilt, and reiterated his story in regard t the guilt of a son of the lion. William DI itgomery, who was tried and cleared nt the last session 01 the court. The execution was performed most bung lingly, the rope being so long that the con demned man's feet struck the ground, and the executioners were compelled to shorten the rope and hang him again. Young Montgomery was tried in Febru ary lust and acquitted. The atrocity of the crime with which the prisoner was charged, his youthful appearance, and the prominent position held In the community by his rel atives, conspired to render the trial ono of unusual interest, and the (!ourt room was crowded dully by people, many of whom had been attracted Iron' distance. Messrs. Win. McKenna:l, David Wilson, Alexander Wilson, George Hart, Truman Brady and ltobt. F. Gibson, Esqs., appeared for the prisoner, and District Attorney Crumrine, 11. S. Vanklrk and N. I'. Fetterman rep resented the Commonwealth. The efforts of the defense were mainly to the proving of all alibi, a sister-in-law of the prisoner, who resided at his father's house, testifying that he retired In nod at ten o'clock on the night of the murder, and had been at home during the entire evening. Fogler wits brought into court at the request of the counsel for the prosecution, but refused to testify. The Jury retired nt eight o'clock on Saturday evening, and n few mintnes before eleven returned a verdict of not guilty.— The prisoner was then discharged by proc lamation. 'rho Suicide or Congressman Hine Judge I Ilse, a member or Congress from Kentucky, who committed suicide a few days ago, left the following note on his table: • "I have lost all hope of being able to old In saving the country from the impending (Heaters and ruin In which despotic and un constitntional rule has involved her. I have been brought into the public service at an age too advanced, and at a period too late to allow me to hope that I can do any thing in aid of the restoration of constitu tionalgovernment, even if admitted to a seat in Congress, which, It is said, would be refused. "I am enfeebled by the infirmities of age and by disease. I tun weary of the world and Intend to leave it. lam sick at heart, and resort to death for relief. I shall leave poor, afflicted wife, and kind relatives and friends, none of whom have any know ledge of my purpose. 1 have kept my in tent to seek death for relief front the sor rows that ulllict me a secret from all. I do not think even a suspicion of it exists in the minds of either wile, kindred or friends. " ELIJAH Mists. "Sunday, April 21, 1867." "There Is a codicil to my will in my coat pocket, since placed In the hands of my wife. Suicide ran in the Judge's family. Ills father disemboweled himself some years ago In Russellville, Kentucky, and he had also an eccentric brother, named .105. who jumped front' a' vessel, between New Orleans and Ilavaiiu, and was drowned. A Negro :e Itn a nape on a White The Odd Fellow, published at Boons borough, Md., says, John Gates, a colored man living at Hiram Snavely's about 11 miles from this place, was arrested last Friday morning by Dallas Smith rut others, charged with rononitting a rape on Miss Flook, a young girl about 15 or 16 years of ago, who was also living at Mr. Snavely's. He was taken before Justler Devillilsm of this place, and after an exam- Inallon of the MHO was committed to the county Jail to await hie trial before the court. Constable Samuel Dagenhart, us• misted by Dallas Smith, took him to I lagers town the SUMO day, whore he is now safely lodged to await his trial. horrible Accident About throe o'clock yesterday afternoon the County Physician was called to view the mutilated remains of u man named Richard Charniey, a native ofEngland, who was almost instantly killed by being caught in a holt which he was In the act of adjust ing, In the upper story of the Clarke Thread Manufactory on the Passaic river. The shaft to which the belt was attached was but a short distance from the ceiling, and around this shall ho was rolled with the rapidly of lightning, his head striking against the ceiling at every revolution. ills brains and blood were dashed around In every direction, bespattering tho workmen, the calling, floor and machinery. Ills right log was torn off, and n silver watch was hurled to the opposite side of the building a distance of some eighty feet. Deceased was a machinist by trade, and had been brought out hero by the Messrs. Clarke to adjust some of their machinery. lie was recently u foreman in a factory in Manches• ter, Eng., and had been the recipient of a testimonial from his fellow workmen in February last of a gold medal suitably in scribed, and a chain attacked, which he had on his person at the time of his death. lie leaves a wife and three children in England, and a short time ago sent them a sum of money, to enable them, it is supposed, to join him in this country.— Nciourk (N. J.) Journal. e Famine in South Carolina Mr. W. Gilmore Simms says that, so far as he can see there is no possible escapefor South Carolina from general famine, in which all must suffer, and many perish— unless the charities of the outer world should be more prompt and more bountiful than hitherto. He says that the very beasts are dropping dead at their work for want of food. This is the story which is coming from almost every , section of the South ; and yet millions at the North, who would give mil lions to avert the consequences of a general famine at the South do not realize that there is any danger of this dire calamity. Diamonds. An English writer upon the subject of diamonds and other precious stones sa,ye that but a small portion of the gems sold and worn are genuine. Thediamond mines of Golconda are giving out and those of India are rapidly failing. The scarcity- of the real gems has beenmetbythe ingenuity of counterfeiters, whomanufactUre spurious gems that freqUently . deceive expert con noisseurs. Brazil is.now the chief- 'source of supply for diamonds, bat the' 'annual producticna of that country is very Illassaehitietti KoralarA Wicked Parson and licentious Legislator. Special Correspondent of the IT: Y. Herald. BeireN, May 13, 1867. The most shockingandrevolting instance humandepraVityeverrticorded has been .rued' for the disgrace of Massachusetts. pA man, high in socialposition, occupying a high phiceln the esteernef this community, :pastor of tlinßaptistahurch in Abington—a man promhient in the cause of education and .tempiranCe,' and Withal - a member of the Legislature—has BO lowered him self in bru tal passions and practices as to contaminate the whole atmosphere around him. The un fortunate man is Rev. Serene Howe, and his career of crime was suddenly brought to a termination on Saturday evening and so indignant and excited were the citizens of Abington that it was almost by a miracle that he escaped from the town with his life. It seems that Howe settled over the Baptist church in Abington some six years since, and by apparent exemplary conduct he won the confidence of his parishioners and the community in general. Being very forward in promoting the cause of ed ucation, he was made Chairman of the School Com mittee of the town, and was entrusted with the general educational supervision of the youth of the whole town. He was also a prominent temperance advocate, an indus trious advocate of prohibition, and as such gained access to the confidence and esteem of the prohibitionists all around him. Al sorts of honors were forced upon him, and he had the respect and good will of every body who knew him, until his brutal prac tices were revealed on Saturday. A few days previous It was generally whispered about the town that he manifest ed n strange desire for the constant vont panionship of the youth of both sexes, and upon reviving incidents of the past many circumstances were remembered which, now that suspicion had been aroused, pointed to him as one of the vilest of men. The suspicions wore soon confirmed by a conversation which was overheard by a parent, of her own and sonic other children, concerning their visits to the minister's study, and of the things which they saw and did, all of which wore indecent and ex tremely disgusting. Ono of theme children, a little girl, was taken to task by her mother, and she made a full confession of Howe's proceedings with her and other children in the town, and the story was told to the father. lie Immediately consulted with other heads of families lit the towti, and they in turn had con versations with their 01011 children, when it was established beyond a doubt that the very worst of their hell4pleiele, were con firmed by disgusting facts. Very many of the children In town, It appears by these investigations, had been invited and se duced by this clergyman to become acces sories to the gratification of his lustful pas sions, and both sexes of the youth of the village were among his victims. Ills posi tion as school committeeman gave him un usual facilities for circulating (inning the young, and over Homier them he seemed t• hold a power as strong and mysterious a( it 10(15 evil and debauching. Many of them used to sleep with him nights In ills stud) in the vestry of the church, and it is state, that some of his engagements of this kin( were made a week or two in advance, all also that ho used to take young boys will him to Boston to gratify his passion. (he fact In confirmation ()Rills statement is the when In the Legislature he frequently hen with him In his sent youths or ten er flyless years. All of these facts having been talked nye by some of the prominent citizens of the town, It was denided to Walt upon Huy. :dr. Howe on Saturday evening, and see what he had to offer In explanation of the strange stories which were circulating about hlin. When called upon, he was conducting uu evening prayer meeting In the vestry nt the church. One of the gentlemen of the Coin mittee, It father of one of the children whom he had instructed in debauchery, told Mtn what they had hoard, and asked if ho had anything to say. Ito received the charges with the utinosi composure, and replied, with au air of im fureil innocemai, that he had nothing What ever to say in reply to such slanders, all( that furthermore be did not wish to be in [(irrupted while conducting a religious meeting. The gentlemen then retired and Rev. Mr. II owe returned to the vestry to continue the exercises Of the meeting. Sub sequently, however, before finishing up his meeting, he was waited upon a second time by the same gentlemen, and informed very emphatically that he must make some ex planation or the aceusations motinst, him or prepare forthwith for n hasty exit from the town. At about the Melee MO -11111111 a suggestion of a roll and tar and feathers was 11111d0 by one of the crowd; whereupon the dignity and nit* of Injured innocence which he laid ill along inanillist (id gave way to astonishment Lind grief, Ife quickly loft the clime!), and the devotional services inside were brought to a hasty ter minution. While it crowd wits rapidly gnthering he improved the opportunity of darkness to make good ills escape, Senn . of the most Indignant, however, were still persistent in their determination to limit revenge by applying a 'out of tar and feath• ors, and if he showed resistance to lynch him upon the nearest tree. This spirit or m mob finally became so prevalent that soon of the prominent citizens or the town wore obliged to appeal in a speech to till crowd to desist front any violent demon• strittlon. This wise counsel prevailed, and Howe was allowed to spend the night un harmed In an adjacent town, and he wia> not heard of again until he reached Mb city to-day. The news of Ilowe's crimes and the dls• gusting details reached the State !louse lie. lore the arrival of the members of the Legis lature, and met them as they came up on( by ono to their day's work. The atonic?! told by his neighbors and those who huh the printed particulars engrossed the utter don of every one, and groups gathered ta the portico and in the lobbies earnestly d is cussing the affair and expressing indigna tlon and sorrow. The natural excitemen of the members was heightened by the ap pearance of Howe, who, a half hour berm., the time for opening the session of tin (Ink, showed himself in the House am attempted to brazen it out. The question , eagerly put to him by friends, whethe. or not he was guilty, tolwthor he ha, any explanation, or whether anything con 11 be said to moot the charges and make his innocence certain, he answered dodgedly that he had nothing to say and no explana tion to make. Ills friends told him that, mho circumstances being as they were, the best mud safest thing for him to do was to leave the State House at once, and repel' to parts unknown whither all criminals fly after the commission of their ernnes against the laws and humanity. It being also intimated that ho would be treated roughly and perhaps umnorcifully if he did not make trucks before touch time ((lapsed, he concluded that it was, after all, hest to leave. So be dictated a resignation of his meat, which was placed on the Speaker's desk, and left the House, it is trusted, forever. On account of this fresh and almost un precedented news concerning it member of the Massachusetts Legislature, the those of Representatives dill not (sum to order until a long time after Its use hour. From Mexico. The news from Vern Cruz, Mexico, is to the 4th Inst„ and from Mexico city to the 2fith of April. Marquez had about sloven thousand men In the capital, and was close. lv bemeiged by Porfirio Diaz. The aque ducts supplying water to the city hail bowl cut off and no food was arriving. Artesint wells, however, were supplying the Inhabt. twits with water. Maximilian was report• ed s till at Queretaro, sustaining the lodge The reported death of General Mlramon is denied. The selge of Vera Cruz was being carried on with more than usual activity, Sisal and Merida wore In the Minds of the liberals, Imperialist accounts say that Max imilian hail arrived in Mexico city wi ll) eight thousand troops to relieve Marquez. Minister Campbell's messenger to J maw", with the Intercession of the government for :Maximilian in case of his capture return ed to Now Orleans yesterday. Ile left Jile rez it San hula Potosi, on the of April. Maximilian was inside of Queretaro with fifteen thousand men, while Escobedo Mid thirty-live thousand outside and possessed all the roads but one. The messenger was treated with the greatest consideration and courtesy, but the fooling among the liberals was so bitter against Maximilian and his officers thin it was thought they could not be saved ftoin violence nit Mete of capture. Attempted Suicide The Mount Union Times gives the follow Mg curious account of an attempted suicide cm last Saturday, a man I lying in Now ti Hain 11 ton, by Immo of Fully Smith, about I it ed suicide by cutting his throat with a pen knife. The following are the particulars of tho affair, so far as we have boon able to learn them: It seems that Mr. Smith has been laboring, under a mental as well as physical disorder for come time back, and on Saturday last 'ho sent to the store for some kind of patent medicine. After taking 80030 of the medicine, ho got an idea in his head that it contained a quantity of brandy. Being a Good Templar, he seemed to be very much distressed at the idea of drink ing brandy, and said it " would send him to hell." Ho went to an orchard near by, and with a pen keit° cut his throat three times. When found he was very nearly dead; but from latest accounts he will likely recover. It is said he burnt a con siderable amount of Government bonds before he attempted to kill himself. More Negro Blot% NEW ORLEANS, May 16.—A. disturbance occurred to-day amongst the negro steve dores on the levee, amounting almost to a riot. Two policemen were badly beaten while endeavoring to resoue a negro from a mob of his own color. The military were order ed out to aid the police. The following is a portion of the order of General Mower ad dressed to the negroes: The United States government will, if necessary, protect you through the military; but you will not be protected in wrong do ing. 2.:f a meeting in Galveston, a negro speak er drawing offensive oomparisons between the races, was interruFited by the United States soldiers, and• indiscriminate shooting commenced, a majority of the negroes ap pearing UT be artaed. ItiliNd4 • •It is stated - that the Fenian informer Massey has arrived in Canada. Generals Grant, Thomas and Dent ar rived In Richmond, Va., on Saturday. The Democratic majority in Kentucky by Congressional districts Is 42,208. The London Sear thinks "It would be a blunder, and even a crime, to execute the sentence of death on the convicted Fenlans. A. forgery to the amount 0f__1117,590 on the Broadway Bank of New York came to light on Saturday. The forger has not Weil discovered. A grand "-tournament," for the relief of Southern widows and orphans, Is announ ced to take place at Memphis on Wednes day. Tho Canadian Council has ordered that poultry and fancy birds imported from the United. States by agricultural so cieties be exempt from duty. The expansion of the rails of a railroad 500 miles long amounts in a hot summer's day to nearly a quarter of a mile, from the point of the extreme contraction in winter. Woman's Suffrage Association has been organized in St. Louis, several promi nent ladles of that city having been elected officers. A bogus " Soldiers' Orphan's Home" con cern has been exposed in Columbus, Ohio, and one Evan S. Shipley, the acting mana ger, and 0. Boughton and B. F. Williamson, trustees, have been arrested. It is already understood to be the purpose of Jett Davis to set to work writings book • giving a history of the secession movement, the Southern struggle, and his own adven tures from December, 18110, to May, 1807. A large amount of testimony on the Im peachment question has been taken by the Judiciary Committee ' and Representative Ashley Is still In Washington, busy with tho !mutter. It is ,aid that ChM' ,Insticu Cilium Will preside In tho Circuit Court at Richmond, mhould any 0111411 occur requiring . him prOH- Moo, nn l that ho certainly intends holding airt in N,nrth Carollott next month. The Indians, In 'urge force, ttro coneen • II ting sent Forts Sedgwlek, Sounders, 141- olio and Phil. Kearney, and the troops thoso places tiro being rolnforeed. Thu tin are very hostile in Arizona l'artlttt+ prospecting for coal In Kuml. , have conic upon tt volt of hard, hiUunlnuun coal t reo feat cluvon Incites thick, at a dopth of 1111 con out banuath Ihu vu 11.11 CO. 'l'heNt. Louis Uermuus celebrated the anniversary nitho capture of CampJ acksen the (d her day, how vlgorouely, may blf judged by the fact that 35,000 &Pews ut Inge'. wore drunk on the OC(11114i011. internal revenue recelpta of lest week were s'2,te. - ,,Stie. The Treasury dleburme motile on iLecount of the War, Navy, 'Lod hterier DepertmentA tiering •the suniu ertml wero 1,41,2.13,01 M. Chicr Justice Chaso ban Lime far notni tted nno•third or the whole number or Ristrars or bankruptcy, Including thome r the Easton' and Northern Statvs, and rot . nt.orglit and I,otibilitnit. Thu Fur storu of NIOSIfiI.N. AN'otorittli, Arch strovt, Fourth, In Phllndulplitn, with robbed On Sitturday night ()I' ithout $(1000 worth of I'll[l4. Tho 1011110 li rm hunt $5OOO worth of sl:ltis by it robbury now° (.Iglituoti titontlim lig°, A youthful gentleman speaking or au, mllloll'llo° yellowish Intlr of it young .iLtity said enthusiastically that IL WIIIM plll . o " It (night to tat," rmilitricod 1 . 1'1011(1; " It loolot Illto twonty-lour The rlelitist member of the Cotineetieut Senate Is an Irishman, whose property irt valued at s2,rne,ooo, and whose dully In t.tatio Is el,ooo. !lo mmlollll4 money from un ell farm In Pennsylvania, which he ptir clitt4ed for tii2,500. Mr. Vtmatt, the fatilotis vat:winery sur geon, who hue been bitten eight, or ten times by rabid animals, silys that. crystals of ni Irate of silver, rubbed Into Lilo wound, will positively prevent hydrophobia In the 1.11- ton porNon or 1111 `unto men front Cincinnati have organ ized it eompatty to soaroli for gold lo 0110, I thlo, whore It hits boon known lo exist lier some time. IL It reported they tool: front twelve to Illteen dollars' word' On Siiturdny lamt. The Irtistpem tinder Om will ni' M rm. I,ydni S. Itnteh, propome In pubilidi now (411tIon of Ihn 01°0101.0ra! wnrlcx ni Emanuel SweLlenborg, with a turoful r..- vlmion of Ihnhition. II In Intended that the new i.illtlon shall In. printed In u .4111)011w. yln ul'l rt. The Petersburg Index contains a letter lohlressod In• it uumbur of 11441)00(0)1u ealtwed people nr North Carolina to ex • flovernors Wiso, V14(111111, and Vance, of North Carolina, and Itov, Retry .1r„ of l'otorshurg, Vit., asking then' to ad dress Ilium on the Issues of the day. A. would-1 , 0-brklit in Dayton ! Ohio, aged an, has Hued a gentleinan of 70 for breach of promise. Mho shown ono of his letters in which ho said ho " existed only in law stnlh•s, and !lint the happiest day of his life would he that on which he should call her his own." Tho dist.co from New York to Sacra mento, by the railroad route, Is 3,129 or which 1,557 hare been completed, and arc now In successful operation, leaving hut I miles yet to he built. It In von ficlont ly asserted that this gap will be tilled up within two yearn. The Atlantic cable of IMO has ceased working, and the disaster is attributed to damage done by an iceberg, which ground ed ott the harbor of lleart's Content on the evennig of the .1111 instant, and is supposed to have broken the cable. The cable at that point lien In about sixteen fathoms of water. queer thing, lake place in Logan, Ohio. For instance, oil the 1 . 2. th instant, two women by the name of Pontius quarreled and then fought with chit... During the light, a little child between four and live rears of ago was killed, it Is 41111 , 1)(aeal, whlle trying to get to its toollti.r. rho mother was also badly If not seriously hurt. It is said now that the President will ac cept the invitation extended to him by the Masonic fraternity of Boston to he present at their coming celebration, and will ac company the two Comma outcries of Knights Templar front Washington. A' revenue cutter will ho placed at their disposal by tho Treasury Department. Rents in Now York, especially of stones, have experienced a very decided declino since the first of May. There aru dozens of places "W let" on Broadway, between Chambers and Fourth par 4 6ets, and on terms which could not ho thought of throe weeks since. The general stagnation In trade has produced llds result. Two littlo boys ran away front their honte 0 an Ohio town one dny last week, and oft a not° stating that they wore going to Rocky Mounnans to hunt buffalo. They core captured about six :talus front holm., n the act of shooting al sumo calves with t 'any and arrow, tattoo home and put to bud without their supper. Ausnii O . 11, Dodigo, of Now York city, has sturtt•d a town In Cameron county. Penna. on an entirely now and liberal pith - wilily, Ili propotots to Om fifty floret+ ol good land to ovory portittinont mottlor. lunation of this land 114 on tho Sniltliport turnpike twonty !Idiom front Rio Plilludid phla and Itirlo Railroad, In ettinoron (Kandy. A new opera House in Philadelphia is proposed. Thu property at the northwest corner of Ninth and Arch streets, having a front of IS feet and it depth of 1211 feet, hue been purchased by Mr. Hobert Simpson for the cunt of $410,000. Thu old buildings uric to be removed, and au (Tors House lor rorlicrogs xoy's Itflnstreis erected nl I heft site, A waiter girl In a hotel at Burlington, Vt., married lust fall it mulatto cook in the some hotel, the pious clergyman who united them Belt g of the fire•eating, miscegenation stripe. The mulatto took his white wife to Hartford where he abandoned her, and she has become it inliterable out-cant, and is now in confinement on the charge of bigamy, having huhu:edit young white boy to marry her. St. Louis hits a shoeking sensation. A Rev. Mr, Mattice, whose amorous propen sities overcame his clerical exclusiveness, made love to and won the young and beau tiful wife of an old physician mimed Fischer. The reverend lover was a bright and shin ing light In the Young Men's Christian Association, and to that body Dr. Fischer set forth his grievances. The result ix that Menke has been diamissed front his charge, and she who loved not wisely has returned to her liege, In no portion of the South Is greater dis tress and privation experienced from want of foil than exists today in soaps portions Northern lowa.southwestern Minnesota and lowa. Most of the settlers are newcomers, recently located under the Homestead law. ibibuqtie and other cities are moving to aid them, anti help prom other quarters is ur gently called tor. Families have lived on rutabagas for weeks, others on corn ground in a coffee mill. They could kill game, but they have neither ammunition nor money, nor have they seed for their land. Some twenty years ago there appeared at Denville, Montgomery County, Mo., a stranger, who brought with him a tape line, a topographical map, and a small boy. The boy s oon:Afterwards disappeared, and the man has ever since led it recluse's We, living in a cave of the rocks, and subsisting principally by hunting and fishing. He seems to have possessed a mania for gold seeking, and in the prosecution of his searches for the precious ore, he has sunk nine wells in the solid rocks with an axe, the deepest one of which is forty feet. Mr. Davis for tbo first time since his ar rival in New York, loft his hotel on Satur day morning about ten o'clock, and at the urgent request of his friends rode out to the residenceof his counsel, Mr.Charlea O'Con - or at Washington Heights, where he passed that day as also the Sabbath. Mrs. 'Davis has recovered from her nervous agitation, and, in Ecompany with Miss Howell and escorts, visited the French Theatre on Fri day night to witness the farewell perform ance of Madame Ristori, and the New York Theatre on Saturday night. On Sunday she joined Mr. Davis at the residence of Mr. 0!Conor. The trip to Canada Will be made early this week. • •• 1 : •
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